How to generate a Google sitemap.xml with Ruby on Rails
November 20th, 2007
If you use Google webmaster tools, you would have used the sitemap.xml file to tell Google about the pages your site has. While there are tools to make this, I wanted it to be automatic, so I made Rails make it for me!
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- Mikel
@Clemens
I actually use Geoffrey’s approach in all my spec’s in addition to this little builder.
The idea of the...
- Clemens Kofler
Geoffrey Grosenbach uses another method in his screencasts sometimes.
In your user_spec.rb, you’d have the following code:module UserSpecHelper...
- Xavier Shay
Even quicker way to assign User.find to a variable: user = _
the value of the last line executed is...
- Mikel
Duncan, good point, I changed the code above. Thanks for that.
- Duncan Beevers
It might be better to use a method name like build_valid instead of just build.
This way, you could use...
- Mikel
Exactly, this method handles it if it is false or nil and always returns true or false.
Mikel